Matt also describes being a Samaritan as being a "sounding board" – the phrase reminds him of the day he walked into a Samaritans branch for the first time.
One associate referred to Comey's preparation as a kind of "murder board" — a phrase used to describe a committee of questioners that hurls tough questions at someone as practice for a difficult oral examination.
"Tabs, pads, and boards". The phrase may sound like a piece of techno-buzzy cud coughed up at a TEDx or SXSW talk, but it's actually a precise description of current hardware trends made 22 years ago by a chief scientist at Xerox PARC.
In the past half-century, the meaning was extended to "the center of violent activity or sudden change," and even to "the ultimate origin, very beginning," as a near-synonym to the informal board-game phrase Square 1; as such, ground zero is lowercase.
The two least generous players went in front of the group and wrote their name on a board under the phrase 'I donated least', which was visible for the entire game (for honour, the phrase was 'I donated most' and the two most generous players went in front).
The building is a sign -- a bill-ding board, in Robert Venturi's phrase -- and the sign says: Welcome to Nueve York.
A local businessman on the board had used the phrase while emphasizing the importance of providing the proper incentives for the doctors.
Sue Gamble said the board, by dropping a phrase that defined science as "a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena," was opening the door to supernatural explanations.
(You can use the phrase "personal board of directors" if you like, or related words like "mentor" or "adviser" but they are not necessary. Focus on the person, not the title).
It seems an obvious thing, but it's one the company ignored for eight years, until the moment in 2014 when Libin was writing a presentation for his board and used the phrase "5% of our users choose to pay us", rather than "5% of our users pay us" as he had previously.
